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[ . . . ] In the early autumn of 1918 we entered a new circle of Bolshevik hell, the period of mass Red Terror. The murder of Uritskii and…
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Simon Dubnov
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Riga, Latvia
Date:
1934–1935
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Sephardic cooking in Salonica was based, until the Greek occupation of 1912, on sesame seed oil, which in the Judeo-Spanish dialect was called by the name of azeite de giungili…
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Michael Molho
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1940
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Today I returned from my trip to Tunis, and I will start to record what I witnessed, heard, and felt. On Thursday, 15 Iyyar (May 20, 1943), I left Tripoli. [ . . . ]
On that day…
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Ephraim E. Urbach
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(Tripoli, Libya)
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1943
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Photographs shock us in so far as they show us something novel. Unfortunately, the ante keeps getting raised—partly through the very proliferation of such images of horror. One’s first encounter with…
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Susan Sontag
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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The leader and the soul of Iskra was Lenin. And although he was surrounded by a group of brilliant writers and first-class leaders (indeed, all enjoyed equal rights in a…
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Vladimir Medem
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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Paris, Tuesday, May 25, 1926, half past three in the afternoon. The car in which I had suddenly found myself honked and barely managed to drive through the dense throng, with people…
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Sholem Schwartzbard
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1933
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Mordkhe Spektor [1858–1925] was the “honorary chair” of the “Society of Gluttons and Drunkards.” Though he had not been elected to this “post,” everyone felt that Spektor was the singular candidate…
Contributor:
Elkhonen Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1937
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…
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Zelig Kalmanovitch
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1942
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Presiding Judge: I declare the sixty-eighth Session of the trial open.
Decision No. 72
We confirm the request of the Attorney General and will permit the…
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Ka-Tzetnik 135633
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1961
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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…
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Mordecai Sheftall
Places:
(Savannah, United States of America)
Date:
ca. 1778–1779